History and ‘the inevitable’
Exactly a century ago, on 7 January 1922, after nine days of acrimonious debate, Dáil Éireann narrowly approved, by a vote of 64 to 57, the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Interestingly, that vote did not legally ‘ratify’ it; that had to await a vote, boycotted by anti-Treaty TDs, of the previously moribund ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’ on … Read more